In Ceilândia, on the outskirts of Brasília, Léa, Chitara and Andreia have a very particular business: extracting oil from pipelines in the city, then turning it into gasoline that they sell to “motoboys” in the area. Between this structure and the business of politics, this is the story of Kebradas’ gasoline trade.
Those who rebel against authority figures disobey. This film echoes “Cordobazo” — a popular rebellion in Cordoba against the Argentine military dictatorship in 1969 — through the story of Alicia, a trolleybus driver who joins an insurrection against an oppressive regime.
Laurent Garnier is described as being the Pope or “a DJ’s DJ”. This documentary offers an insight into the long career of the French DJ and producer, one of the biggest names in the techno music explosion of the 90s. A walk through dance floors so full of people dancing that it rains with the condensation resulting from the heat.
The protests in Belarus, at the time of Lukashenko’s re-election in 2020, led to the arrest of around 7,000 people. A dispassionate representation of what happened next, based on hundreds of testimonies, makes the horror of the situation as instructive as impressive.
Our piggy is excited and gets even more excited when the vacuum cleaner starts working. But this is not his only moment of happiness, which can be inspired by a box, a boat or Christmas lights.
Xavier is a musician trying to make it with his band, until he makes a Faustian bargain, with all the inevitable tragedy that entails.
As hilarious as it is uncomfortable, this family’s murder ballad ocould have been a song by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
It’s not an easy life for a young woman in Haiti. Gessica Généus’ first feature film focuses on a family headed by a mother, Jeannette (Fabiola Rémy), who tries to convince Esther (Djanaïna François) to find a rich man to marry and Freda (Néhémie Bastien) to find a job and drop out of college. Alongside precariousness and tough choices, accusing complex social issues, there are also desires and joys.
A collaborative work by the filmmakers An van. Dienderen (Belgium), Rosine Mbakam (Cameroon) and Éleonore Yameogo (Burkina Faso) that explores their different perspectives as filmmakers and their different experiences, as a result of their skin color. The film is divided into three parts, each of which is the responsibility of one of the directors, but the dialogue between the trio is made through recordings where they discuss opinions, conclusions and even lighting techniques.
The Soviet pioneer of documentary film presents turbulent episodes of the civil war that followed the Russian revolution of the early 20th century and includes images of historical figures such as Trotsky. This film was considered lost (or reused in other works by the director), but it is finally presented to the public, a century later, given the reconstruction work by the academic Nikolai Izvolov.
Doris Wishman goes where no woman has gone before and transports sexploitation to the surface of the Moon in a sensual science fiction film, as if Star Trek had arrived with the wrong coordinates. When Dr. Jeff Huntley receives an inheritance he begins to build a rocket ship with the help of his mentor Dr. Nichols, in order to travel to the Earth’s satellite. In a Florida-turned-Moon, they encounter a sensual (and telepathic) alien community.
Doris Wishman is back with Chesty Morgan. In this movie, Chesty is Jane, a secret agent with a particular method: hiding a mini-camera in her cleavage. But the tech is revealed to be a ticking time bomb, set to go off if Jane fails to complete the mission.
A sexploitation film with a hint of the supernatural. Zeb has an unhealthy attachment to Ann, and when he discovers artefacts with voodoo powers that allow him to control the object of his obsession, the young girl cannot escape this maddening, abusive game.
Leaving the model of roughies and nudie cuties, Doris Wishman directs a documentary (with situational dramatisations) that focuses on the lives of transgender people, speaking to folks like Deborah Hartin, transgender rights activist, and Dr. Leo Wollman, who assisted the transition of several people and wrote the first care protocols in these cases, among others.
In true Charlie’s Angels style, the immoral three are half-sisters (separated at birth because they were given up for adoption) whose mission is to avenge their mother’s death — and, consequently, obtain the inheritance that she left them. The mother in question is Jane from Double Agent 73, although she is no longer played by Chesty Morgan.
A film that presents itself as a comic attempt to satirise the adult film industry, which features Sammy Petrillo, a comedian and Jerry Lewis impersonator from the 50s, then in decline.
A story about anarchy and watchmaking that gets its name from the intricate piece that forms the “heart” of the watch. We are in the 19th century, in St. Imier, Switzerland, a place dedicated to the manufacture of watches and where Josephine works. As she learns new ways of thinking about money, labour and, of course, time, she becomes involved in the anarchist watchmaking movement, where she meets Pyotr Kropotkin.
Omar, who belongs to a circus because of his crablike hands, has long since accepted his sad fate at the hands of the despot Mr. Jules. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel embodied by Pincette, a mermaid tightrope walker that’ll transform his life.